Original Research: Descriptive or Analytical, Either-Or or Both-And?

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descriptive (adj.)“serving or aiming to describe,” 1751, from Late Latin descriptivus, from descript-, past-participle stem of describere “to write down, copy; sketch, represent,” from de “down” (see de-) + scribere “to write” (from PIE root *skribh- “to cut”). Related: Descriptively; descriptiveness. 1Online Etymology Dictionaryhttps://www.etymonline.com/word/descriptive© 2001-2024 Douglas Harper analytical (adj.)“employing analytic methods,” 1520s, with -al (1) + Medieval Latin analyticus, from analyticus, from Greek analytikos “analytical,” from analytos “dissolved,” from analyein “unloose, release, set free,” from ana “up, back, throughout” (see ana) + lysis “a loosening,” from lyein “to unfasten” (from PIE root *leu- “to loosen, divide, cut apart”). 2Online Etymology Dictionary https://www.etymonline.com/word/analytical© 2001-2024 Douglas Harper